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‘Since the pieces are still quite moist, they must be dried in large ovens, called kilns, before they become hard enough to be packed.’

‘Such colours as may be thought proper are then laid on, and the ware is afterwards baked in ovens or furnaces.’

‘It was like forcing a clay figure to bend after it had been in the oven and glazed.’

‘This curious form of celebration is believed to have been facilitated by the existence of large ovens for the local manufacture of earthenware pipes.’

‘The following day, the coke ovens and one blast furnace were reported to have collapsed due to low temperatures and the absence of maintenance staff.’

‘The tram was built to carry coal from the immediately adjacent coal mine to a row of beehive coking ovens and thence to the smelter furnaces.’

‘The site contains several scheduled monuments, including beehive coking ovens, calcining kilns, blowing engine houses, and a unique lift tower which was used to transport material to the top of the furnaces.’

‘Ten years ago this site operated around the clock and housed multi-million-pound facilities including a blast furnace, strip mill and coke ovens.’

1.2Used to describe a very hot place.

‘the sun was beating down on to my little tent and it was like an oven in there’

1.3historical A cremation chamber or gas chamber in a Nazi concentration camp.

‘What about the millions of Jews cremated in Nazi ovens?’

‘Jewish millionaires and members of European parliaments were cremated in Auschwitz ovens.’

‘I do not think there are many who would find fault with the Jewish resistance fighters who destroyed the gas ovens that Nazis used to slaughter so many of their brethren.’

‘The secularist Hitler sent millions of Jews to the gas ovens.’

‘When we went into Germany, we didn't expect that there were going to be ovens in Auschwitz, but we found that out later.’

‘My family didn't die in Nazi ovens, so I couldn't possibly forgive Hitler and his thugs.’

‘Can someone tell me how many concentration camps and ovens would that take?’

‘When I run my hand along a bunk or the bricks lining a crematorium oven, my heart sinks every time.’

‘With due speed, German industrialists were required to design and produce ovens and gas chambers that would enable the mass murders to be carried out quickly and cleanly without involving German personnel too much.’

‘I was born in a DP camp in Germany in 1947 to parents who had survived the ovens of Nazi Germany, in which their entire families had perished.’

‘I had my grandmother on the phone - it reminded her of the ovens in Auschwitz.’

Origin

Old English ofen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oven, German Ofen, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek ipnos.